Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
VIDEO: Celebrate Pi Day with American apple pie for women voters! on Vimeo. Here at Suffrage Wagon Cooking School we’ve been making good old American apple pie for women voters. And everyone else too. But it’s not only Pi Day in March, but also Women’s History Month. Pi Day has been observed in many ways, including making, eating…
Continue ReadingChinese fortune cookies for the Chinese New Year is a Vimeo video from Suffrage Wagon Cooking School. New Year’s Eve came and went but not without a resolution to make traditional fortune cookies for the upcoming Chinese New Year in February. That’s why it’s time to put the Suffrage Wagon Cooking School on your calendar to visit…
Continue ReadingCelebrate with a Vimeo video about January birthdays of suffrage activists. I love birthday parties! And January has had enough birthday celebrations to justify digging the traditional English scones demonstration out of the files of Suffrage Wagon Cooking School. January features the birthdays of Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Caroline Severance as well as…
Continue ReadingEnjoy a blast from the past with a holiday story about Edna Kearns. Image is from the Library of Congress. VIDEO violin recital to celebrate the two birthdays: Martha Wright and Edna Kearns. Celebrate women’s freedom to vote. Activists like these and many others were “there” for us. Let’s be “there” for them by voting…
Continue ReadingOnly one more podcast to go after this one! Podcast #6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton speaks about how the Seneca Falls convention didn’t end in July of 1848. The convention defenders had to defend their position on women’s rights and this meant educating themselves about hefty subjects including law and philosophy. These early suffragists initiated a…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Senate has passed legislation to bring the nation one step closer to a Harriet Tubman national park. Now the bill is before the U.S. House of Representatives. Will the House pass the bill before the summer recess? Or is the bill doomed because of politics? Treat yourself to a Video about the Harriet Tubman…
Continue ReadingBELOW: New video featuring the highlights of Seneca Falls, New York –the birthplace of the women’s rights movement in the United States. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61DCuey7U8U?list=UU9LTzpfNsj1KAKhKHZXNZ9g&w=560&h=315] BELOW: Video highlighting the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments read at the first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwMYoa1Uk3c&w=560&h=315] Follow the Suffrage Wagon that from…
Continue ReadingHAPPY FOURTH OF JULY: The Suffrage Wagon summer newsletter is on the stands. It spells out what happened on the Fourth of July in 1876 when five suffrage activists crashed the national centennial celebration in Philadelphia… a little-known story that’s also an important part of our national history. See link and forward to the people…
Continue ReadingI love the ongoing discussion about Susan B. Anthony on this blog and the implications of what it must have been like for Susan to devote her life to the vote. Today we can take on challenges, like Susan did, that are meaningful (and even have fun) while making a difference. How would Susan respond to…
Continue ReadingIt’s amazing that one person, Barbara Blaisdell, has been delighting fans of Susan B. Anthony for the past 23 years by showing up at events and special occasions in the Rochester, New York area, as well as other venues around the state and nation. She’s spoken on numerous occasions to groups large and small, presented…
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